No-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's world from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web:

No-Tilling Organic Corn into Living Alfalfa

Dr. Erin Silva’s research program, in collaboration with Cornell University, has been investigating outcomes of planting organic corn into living mulches, including alfalfa, red clover, and yellow blossom sweet clover. Dr. Silva presents these research findings, including the impacts of inter-row mowing and variety selection.

No-Till Garlic & Cover Crops

Anne and Eric Nordell have been planting garlic directly into a cover crop of oats for over 25 years. Their no-till system provides consistent yields of large bulbs without irrigation. The video covers their low-tech approach to planting green, cut-and-carry cover crop mulching, rapid bulb curing, and fallow year weed management.

What Does Regenerative Agriculture Mean?

In this video, moderator Danielle Veenstra and experts Gabriele Ludwig, Tanya Gemperle‑Goncalves and Silas Rossow outline what regenerative agriculture means in practice and how it aligns with many common growing approaches. The discussion brings together research insights, grower examples and data‑driven context to help viewers understand both current adoption and areas where further improvements may be beneficial.

Transforming a Heavily Tilled Field to No-Till — It’s Not Easy But It Pays

In this video series, one farmer describes the conversion of a field that had previously been cultivated using mixed tillage methods, from plowing to mulch seeding, to direct seeding. Over the past six months, deep tillage was carried out for the last time, followed by the sowing of a diverse cover crop mixture, into which winter wheat was then directly seeded for the first time.

From $1.5M Debt to Thriving Farm: Our No-Till Journey

Facing massive debt and a young family, one farmer discovered no-till farming. Earthworms returned, wildlife thrived, and water infiltrated the soil, bringing the farm back to life.

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